Erratum vol. 7 no. 6.In "The Changing Epidemiology epidemiology, field of medicine concerned with the study of epidemics, outbreaks of disease that affect large numbers of people. Epidemiologists, using sophisticated statistical analyses, field investigations, and complex laboratory techniques, investigate the cause of Malaria malaria, infectious parasitic disease that can be either acute or chronic and is frequently recurrent. Malaria is common in Africa, Central and South America, the Mediterranean countries, Asia, and many of the Pacific islands. in Minnesota," S.A. Seys and J.B. Bender, a number was inadvertently inserted into a sentence. On page 993, column 2, second full paragraph, the third sentence should read, "Among the patients who were born abroad, sites of malarial ma·lar·i·a n. 1. An infectious disease characterized by cycles of chills, fever, and sweating, caused by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium infection were Africa and Asia." We regret any confusion this error may have caused. |
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